Quotes About Success

I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn £208,000 a year.

No one has ever given me anything. No one gave me a tour card, no one gave me a US tour card, no one gave me a nice house and a Ferrari: I've had to work for every penny I have earned and I'm proud of that.

I am only as good as my last song. Hits are a pension, but I don't want to rest on those songs. I want to have a future.

My parents were both born in 1930. They grew up during the Depression. They wanted their children to have secure lives, to have a good salary and a pension plan. If I could've guaranteed that I'd be a best-selling writer, that would've been one thing, but nobody could say that. So I knew better than to say that was ambition.

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

I can see why people change. You get complimented all the time, driven around in a black SUV - your life is crazy. But that's your career, not you.

My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.

If I say I'm rich enough times and enough people say it back to me, I gotta be rich, right?

My thing is to get new fans. So I love when people say, 'Oh, I've heard of him before.' Or 'I've never heard of Durk.' Or 'I'm a fan of Durk today.' This is what I like to see, because it lets me know when I come out with something that it's going to work.

People say that I got into 'Bigg Boss' because of controversies, but I don't care.

If people say my numbers aren't enough for the Hall of Fame, I'm fine with that.

When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film's success would.

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.

I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.

I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.

People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

It's really amazing what Pep Guardiola has done at Man City.